Let's talk about the Bengals
 

A sneaky big game in the AFC, and probably our toughest game left before playoff time.

Talk about it here

**** these fluky turds.

You know Mahomes has had this one circled since the AFCCG.

I don’t like them or their fans! They make me cringe now when I hear “three way”.

KC Chiefs will win

PM is going to drag his nutsack across their entire team. They are going into next week looking to unleash hell. That being said, if we’re up 21-3 at half once again, it’ll feel like Groundhog Day.

This is our Buffalo Bills type revenge game. I expect the Chiefs to bring it next week.

Agreed. This will be one of those crisp, precise games where we score 30+.

Yip!!!!!!

**** em, Chiefs should be up for this one.

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Punish these bastards. Hope the pass rush rips Burrow a new asshole.

It wasn’t 21-3 at the half

We’ll be fine

Ya, I don’t really know what to expect. When they shut us down the second half the first game, I surely didn’t expect it again the second game. I thought they would have figured it out and learned from it. Maybe third time is the charm.

This will be a playoff atmosphere, deep playoff atmosphere.

If we win this, watch out NFL!

This will be a tough one. The bengals played well today and got a W in Tennessee without chase and Mixon. I think both should be back. I’m envisioning several sideline prayers tossed up to chase and Higgins that get pulled in.

They get a lot of lucky breaks, end of todays game being a prime example.

So you are saying they’ll run their normal offense?

We're going to make orphans of their children.

That’s a good half of Joe’s secret sauce. Chuck up a 50/50 ball to one of your huge wrs. Soooooo gritty. Soooo savvy

This game will set-up our playoff run. Stay home vs. pack our bags and travel…

Won’t be easy, but we’ll be fired up!

FFS, give me a minute.

They're toast, last year might as well be 100 years ago

Fun thing is when we smoke 'em next week their path to the playoffs gets a lot more difficult.

Excellent point.

We are gonna be 1 pt dogs.

Really?

Yep. I think the offense will be a bit more focused than today.

Nah, I'll bet KC will be between -2.5 and -3.5.

Seems high to me. 7-4 ball team who is now clicking on all cylinders with Chase set to come back. All the while people will start to remember they did indeed go to the SB last year.

-1 to +1 seems like the sweet spot to me but we'll see. I'm under the assumption that Chase will practice eventually this week.

Right now KC is -3 vs. CIN.

No way.

I saw Chiefs -3 in one spot.

The had a ton of momentum going into both games last season. Chase was going off weekly, Burrow was the king of the the young stud QB's and their defense was clutch.

I don't feel they have that momentum now. However, the Chiefs were asleep at the wheel today and still blew out the Rams. It can't be that way next week.

I mean, it's been almost a year... how long does this "momentum" supposed to last? ;)

Good to hear. We are still the leagues bees knees.

They're going to have to play better than we did today, but I think they'll be laser focused

Bungles started 0-2, now they’re 7-4. They have momentum going already.

After throwing 4 INTs in his first start this year Burrow has been dealing, despite some injuries to their offense.

chris jones will eat burrow

game over

AFCCG Preview just like last year’s game.

a win and mahomes is the only QB in NFL history with a winning percentage of .800

let it be

****, Chargers/Raiders on at the same time on CBS.

Here’s the QBs they’ve lost to:

Mitchell Trubisky
Cooper Rush
Jacoby Brisset
Lamar Jackson

Tannehill today is probably the best QB they’ve beaten. I thought it was Tua, but that was his concussion game. He left the week before with the concussion (aka back injury) and came back that Thursday against the Bengals (way too early). Then got sent to the hospital.

I think the league is licking their lips at the thoughts of Miami and Reek coming to Arrowhead for the AFCCG. Plenty of fireworks to be had. But their LT got hurt and looks like hell miss 3-4 games. They have a very hard next 4 games. So we’ll see.

by far the hardest game left on teh schedule

they’re a really difficult matchup for us. their defense is very underrated. we can definitely win this game but it’s probably gonna take years off our lives.

I want this win vs. BenGALS more than ever! A co-worker of mine was on the LSU Burrow train and I want to dethrone him! GEAUX CHIEFS!!! "Who Dey?" THE MUTHA ****ING KANSAS CITY CHIEEEEEEEEEEEEFFSSSSSSS!!!!!!

We have a much better and more efficient offense this year. Also we have a much more aggressive DL this year. Just hope Thuney, and possibly Toney can go.

10 -2 here we come! Let's ROCK!!

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Eleventy-seven hours. American hours. None of that gay-ass Canadian metric hour shit.

If anyone on the Chiefs has this game circled it’s Stone Cold

Does that include time change, or like Arizona hours?

Both teams have momentum. This is an AFC heavyweight bout

Depends on who refs. If we get Cheffers, there'll be a time change, even in AZ.

Don't forget another all-time favorite of the referee ranks, Clete ****ing Blakeman.

That's a YIP from me dawg!!

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Brittany’s due date to give birth to the Chiefs QBOTF is this week, correct?

Look at the Bengals schedule and tell me who is the best QB they’ve played.

It’s a pretty bad list. I don’t think their defense is bad or anything, but it’s kind of hard to take too much away from their stats knowing how bad their opposing QBs have been.

Tannehill and Lamar Jackson are probably the best they’ve played. They played Tua but he was concussed entering the game, and left it early (even more concussed).

To add to everything else with this game, the Chiefs haven't won in Cincinnati since 1986. I'd say we're due. EDIT -- actually, 1984!

Whatever happens, happens. Mahomes is committed to both his grand his team. Either way love the guy and won’t fault him.

Not concerned with their defense. KC lit up TB, SF, and scored 26 against a good Rams defense. If KC’s defense can hold their own the KC offense will move the ball and score easily enough.

Correct. Any of their defensive stats should be taken with a grain of salt when you consider the QBs they’ve played.

Patrick Mahomes on the Bengals:

“They beat us. I played terrible in the second half. We lost at home in a game that could’ve sent us to a Super Bowl…We’ll be ready to go this next week for sure”

What if they play their vaunted two-man front again, and put nine men in coverage?

Pacheco will become a household name.

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We get Thuney and hardman or Thuney and Toney back, it won't matter.

ya'll already know what's happening

it's patrick mahomes, coming for revenge, going for .800, going for the MVP, going for the one seed

we win this game, he gets it ALL

we ain't stoppin'

BURY EM

Hardman is gone to IR for another couple weeks.

Mahomes isn’t allowing 0-3 vs Burrow to happen, especially when the last one denied him a golden opportunity for another ring. If he needs 50, he’ll score 50.

His comments were as close as he’ll ever come to saying “we’re going to bury these assholes.”

Shit, that's right. Forgot he went on the IR.

Welp, hope Toney can suit up. Got a feeling he could be impactful.

We need a gadget guy for this one. Get well soon Toney.

I imagine this team is going to be ready for this game more than probably any game this season.

The reality is Cincy just matches up well with us because Spags plays so aggressive on defense and the Bengals have guys like Chase and Higgins who can abuse DBs in single coverage. Burrow is able to make big plays at critical moments.

It's really going to be a great test for all the changes we made this offseason. If the Bengals play soft on defense we should be able to take advantage of it. Running the ball, Mahomes being patient and taking what the defense gives him and spreading the ball around. We definitely owe these guys one.

Do they though? KC was comfortably ahead in both games last year in the first half. They scored a combined six points in the second half of those games. KC did more to lose those games than Cincy beating them.

Dunlap gonna be in Joe's lap for four quarters. Dude is a force out there.

The Chiefs are not only a different team but a better team than last year. CIN feasted on KC's top heavy offense when it mattered most. Now the Chiefs are historically balanced, as they showed in the game today.

The biggest difference may be KC's pass rush. George got his first sack today, Dunlap is playing well, Chris Jones is having a career year, Clark looks to have some extra burst in his step, Saunders has been a pleasant surprise, Dana too. Big improvement.

Overall, the Chiefs defense is hot right now. All three levels. CIN is going to give us a game but they're playing us at the wrong time. Early in the season was the best time to play us. We're rounding into form for the stretch run now. Time is up, it's our time.

Mahomes doesn’t go 0-3 vs anyone.

This thread is pretty much a rah-rah thread, but here's some actual analysis.

This Bengals team is damn good. Way better than their record.

Burrow is fantastic, of course, and they have a top 3 set of offensive weapons in the NFL. We should assume Jamar Chase magically is healthy enough to play this week, and this is one of those games Spags loses sleep over. To accommodate the rookies in the secondary, his back seven is incredibly basic zone, and really good QBs can carve it up if they don't face a ton of pressure. If we can't get a ton of pressure on Burrow, it's going to be very hard to stop him, even without Chase. Their weapons really are that good. (For the record, the Bengals will get one additional year of not-breaking-the-bank-Burrow, but two years from now this team is going to have to pay Burrow and Chase, and it's going to gut their team.)

After the bye, Spags has done everything in his power to generate the best possible passrush, and it shows. The Chiefs live in teams' backfields right now -- though I do wonder how well that's going to work against Cincy. The Titans have a really great passrush and only planted his ass in the dirt once. Do not believe the advance stats, guys: the Bengals offensive line is very good in pass protection now. They're healthy and they're not allowing a ton of pressure.

Of course, the Chiefs have a cheat code in Chris Jones, but Burrow is nearly Mahomes-esque in pocket navigation. They need multiple passrushers to have a game, and Spags needs to be surgical with his blitz calls: none of these stupid fire blitz calls by the handful that killed the D against Josh Allen.

The Bengals have a run game that is workable, but won't kill them necessarily. Mixon is very good but not healthy. Perine is basically late-career Spencer Ware: good player, but he's not the guy who beats you.

The Bengals defense is underrated, I think. They just shut down Derrick Henry, which is somewhat deceptive. They stacked the box against the Titans, which you can't do against Mahomes. But their two interior DTs are healthy now and they're massive and extremely hard to move.

The Bengals have a good secondary, but it doesn't matter right now with Mahomes and this offense... This is as good an offense as the Chiefs have ever had, and the multitude of weapons the Chiefs boast with what's probably going to be an A-game from Andy Reid with tons of man beaters... I just don't think there's much the secondary will be able to do other than double Kelce and dare Mahomes to beat them with anybody else. Mahomes is extremely sharp this year, and he will beat them with everybody else.

The only hope for the Bengals is to get to Mahomes, and Hendrickson/Hubbard is going to give our tackles a lot of problems. I'm guessing the Chiefs give Wylie as much help as they can manage in this game, and just pray Brown can hold off Hendrickson, which he couldn't in the playoffs. So this will be how the Bengals contains Mahomes, if at all.

The Bengals also have that deadly "rush three with a spy" alignment that they stifled Mahomes with twice last season, including the AFCCG where Mahomes was so locked down, he seemingly forgot how to play football. I suspect the better talent this team has across the board will be the solution to that problem, but it's not one we should dare to forget.

The Bengals are a balanced team, with a metric ton of offensive talent, a good secondary, and tough in the trenches.

The Chiefs are capable of handling all this, but they have to get to Burrow, and they have to keep Mahomes clean.

I do agree with everyone that Mahomes and Reid want to absolutely murder the Bengals, and I bet both of them will be at the top of their game. But there's a reason the Bengals swept us last year in the exact same way: they are very talented and their coaching staff had a great feel for our tendencies.

I have this game as a true tossup, maybe even a very slight lean to the Bengals.

Their offense is a nightmare matchup for our defense

I think our offense matches up against their defense, we just have to perform

Our change in personnel wont be the reason we don’t get stifled. Mahomes is just better than he was last year. He’s been the key to this explosive offense, and he’ll be the key to us winning on Sunday

Mahomes sucked in the AFCCG and it had nothing to do with personnel. The key is for him to do what he’s done all year, play at an elite level and give no ****s